Slate.com media critic Jack Shafer writes about the similarities in wording and entire sentences between a Bloomberg News story and one that was published in the New York Times with the byline of staff writer Alexei Barrionuevo.
“The Times echoes the earlier Bloomberg piece in at least four passages. (The Times passages are reproduced slightly out of sequence for the purposes of comparison.)
Bloomberg News:
The first shipments from Canada may arrive at U.S. slaughterhouses in days, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said today in a conference call.
New York Times:
The first shipments from Canada could arrive at American slaughterhouses as early as next week, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said in a conference call with reporters.”
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